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Q: Java console doesn't recognize arrow keys I have some strange problems with a java console on my 10.04 server (it's actually the console of a minecraft-server, but I believe it's a general problem and not something minecraft specific): arrow keys aren't recognized properly. Whenever they are used inside the java console, they produce something like this:
^[[A ^[[B ^[[C ^[[D

They work fine on the rest of the system, though.
I have already tried several things like checking system-locales or setting specific locales for java only but without any luck. Any ideas what's the reason behind it and how it could be fixed?
Thanks in advance.
edit (Oct 29):
After reading the first answer and testing several things, I figured out some more about this issue. There is now program running on top of the shell, the issue is mostly caused by problems with java's jline library that is used by the java application (or its console, to be more specific).
For testing purpose I switched to from OpenJDK6 to OrcaleJDK6 and the issue was gone. Testing OpenJDK7 is not possible as there is no version for 10.04.
I assume some connections with jline since this is the library responsible for handling console out- and input. Probably the version used by the application is somehow incompatible with the older OpenJDK version used on the server. But compatible with the more up-to-date version of oracle-java I installed manually.
I still have not figured out how ubuntu's jline-package fits into this picture. For me there is no difference between testing with and without it.
Will edit this post again if I figure out something. If anybody has an idea, please let me know.

A: Some console programs (it may be a program running on the top of the bash, such as sh ) do not suppress the control key presses such as Up ↑ arrow or down ↓ arrow etc. In those consoles, You will also get the echo of the key presses like you posted ^[[A ^[[B ^[[C ^[[D. It's not a big problem actually.
Your default shell is bash which suppresses the key strokes of arrow keys. Unlike bash, the sh shell doesn't suppress the arrow key strokes. You can try it by running sh on a terminal and pressing the arrow keys. To exit from those consoles, you need to use certain command specific to the programs, most of the time, it is quit or exit. In your case of a minecraft server, it would be stop.

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(EADS, COLORADO) Kiowa County crews are currently conducting searches and damage assessments in the east central portion of the county following a suspected tornado that came through the area.
Damage has been reported to a home near Chivington where a resident was briefly trapped. That person has been removed from the home and is receiving medical attention for minor injuries.
Another home north of Chivington was also damaged, and a semi on highway 96 near the Chivington area was blown over. No injuries were reported at either of those locations.
Power lines are down in many areas. Officials are warning that the lines may be live and are dangerous. Downed lines should be reported to authorities, but should not be moved.
Kiowa County Emergency Manager Jeffrey Wright states that law enforcement and county road works are currently check home throughout the area to ensure residents are safe.
"County crews are making an outstanding effort. We are also in contact with the state emergency operations center and coordinating our response," said Wright.
Wright says that anyone who is not involved in emergency response and has not been asked to help stay away from the area to allow responders to do their jobs safely. At this time, donations are not needed.
Press Release posted by Kiowa County Sheriff's Office at 5:08 a.m. on their blog at http://www.kcdem.info/.


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If I Had a River: A Commentary
by	Oto Hudec · Published 07/14/2014
If I Had a River is an exploration of what it means to live a sustainable life; in this case, on a boat that Slovak artist Oto Hudec constructed with all of the necessary provisions and a functioning garden for living independently at sea.
My thinking about this project started roughly four years ago with a simple drawing of a boat hosting a garden of edible plants. The drawing felt like the best illustration of my dream of a utopian model for living. A boat is a closed space with very defined borders. As my idea was to make life on the boat sustainable, all food production necessary for survival needed to fit in that boat. Considering the fact that I am a traveler, the boat also seemed like an ideal personal solution. On the other hand and with a growing fear of global warming, it had another meaning, too – parked on a beach and waiting for the rise of the sea level, it became a sort of ark.
I returned to the idea in 2012 when I was a finalist for Oskár ?epan Prize, an annual award for the best young artist in Slovakia. It occurred by accident. The four finalists for the prize were invited to exhibit their work at Galéria Umelka in Bratislava. The space for the exhibition was a large, white functionalist building with lots of natural light coming from the ceiling. It is a unique space, designed to show paintings and classical sculptures. From one perspective, it is a glass house and that brought me back to my original idea, as it seemed like an ideal interior for plants to survive. By this time, I was aware of permaculture, and that awareness brought more meaning to my work. For example, considering the limits of the earth and humanity's need for food, permaculture is seeking a productive answer to producing the maximum amount of healthy food in a minimal space (such as planting an edible forest, where the trees provide fruits and nuts, and these trees transport nutrients to the soil for bushes and smaller plants). If part of the solution for humanity is small, personal gardens versus large industrial fields (this isn't the ultimate solution, considering the large population of people on the planet), these need to fit into small areas close to our houses, on tops of roofs, on verandas. Another guiding principle was the act of buying locally to save the environment from the impact of the excessive transportation of goods.
There is also the social character of this project: living in smaller communities, with deeper connections, based on supporting each other, rather than on competition, and with the aim of working for the community rather than for myself. These are all utopian ideas, some realizable, some idealistic, that, in part, serve to evaluate our culture's distance from the sources of our economy. They are meant to function as tools so we can begin a conversation about how these ideas can serve, or not serve, as new models for living in harmony with the environment. So the work contains both practical ideas and a symbolic meaning, resulting in a model of such a boat rather than a real one.
All of the ideas put forth in this piece, in terms of food, production and self-sufficiency, can be adjusted to different scales. They can be applied to one family, a smaller community, such as one street block, one village, or even a state. When I learned more about the ideas of permaculture – including sustainable architecture, integrated water resource management, and agricultural systems modeled from natural eco-systems – I was surprised to see how close I was to this vision. It was then that I decided to ask a leading permaculture designer in Slovakia, Patrícia ?ernákova, to help me with choosing the plants and with designing the garden in the boat.
As the time between the announcement of the finalists for the prize and the exhibition was short (two months), there was not enough time to plant seeds that would grow into plants. I asked Patrícia and her friends for a donation of plants for the piece. The selection was made in accordance with the measurements of the boat, which was scaled to fit the literal physical body and needs of one person on a journey lasting several months. Thus I used miniature lemon and orange trees, small cherry tomato plants, a variety of herbs, stevia as a natural sweetener, pumpkins, greens, beets, and carrots. Having this variety, as opposed to monoculture planting, was a significant aspect of the project. I also included a water container, which was a sort of small lake for fresh water, beehives (for bees to pollinate the plants), and a storage space for seeds, nuts, wheat, and corn. An important part of the boat was a tent for visitors to emphasize my idea that the system was built for sharing. The proposed family or group living on the boat would not be separate from the world, living in their closed, little paradise, but rather they would share their harvest. This idea was extended symbolically to the visitors of the exhibition – they were given the opportunity to collect any of the plants or seeds; they were also asked to water the plants and to generally take care of the garden.
Since finishing the project, I have thought about additional meanings that were equally important in this piece. My artwork is always personal and I know that there was an element of escapism in this piece. I called it If I Had a River, which was a tribute to the song River by Joni Mitchell. My purpose with this name was to highlight desire and poetry and the acts of wishing and dreaming, which I strive for in my work. This is the utopian space where art works for me.
One of the outcomes of the exhibition was that I was invited by Patricia to help with the organization of a large, two-day event entitled Permaculture in the City that included speakers from all over Slovakia. The attendance was surprisingly high and there was a positive atmosphere throughout. I worked on the design, organization and logistics of the conference, which was new for me and which allowed me to put my knowledge into practice and be a part of bigger movement for positive change. This was particularly gratifying, as more and more I feel that my art does not, on its own, operate in a field of real change, but rather that it can inspire conversations or small actions that are part of a larger push for change. In the end, what I realized by working on this project is that by giving the viewer the experience of watching plants grow, perhaps he or she can be motivated to purchase and plant his or her own seeds, and that this may be change enough.
Eastern European Pavilions at this Year's Venice Biennale: Parsing the Contemporary
"I Follow the Work Into the Rabbit Hole." An Interview with Maria Loboda
Roman Stańczak, Allegories of Flight (Polish Pavilion; Dorota Michalska)
Masters on Masters: When the Biennale Goes Meta (Russian Pavilion; Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli)
Heart, Hands, and a Shovel: Danica Dakić's Zenica Trilogy (Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Igor Grubić, Traces of Disappearing (In Three Acts) (Croatian Pavilion; Sven Spieker)
Parole, Parole (As a Counter-Hegemonic Gesture): Red Discussion No. 2 (Pavilion of the Republic of North Macedonia; Maja Ćirić)
"Era ora!": Cristina Baldacci and Marysia Lewandowska discuss Lewandowska's It's About Time
Oto Hudec was born in Košice, Slovakia. He has worked in the United States, Europe and Africa. His paintings, drawings and prints explore both personal and social themes. He also creates video, sculpture and installation for public spaces about social and political issues, such as immigration, refugees and the impact of globalization on the environment. Hudec is currently studying for his Ph.D. at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia, where he also earned his MFA. He is a member of the creative team Make Art with a Purpose and is represented by Gandy Gallery in Bratislava. He lives in Bratislava and Košice, and is a 2014 artist-in-residence at the National Art Studio in Seoul, Korea. See http://fishisflying.blogspot.com.
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This is a list of parties in the world that consider themselves to be upholding the principles and values of democratic socialism or include significant numbers of democratic socialist members (although many do not specifically include the term "Democratic Socialist" in their name). Some of the parties are also members of the Socialist International, Progressive International, São Paulo Forum,  Party of European Left or the Progressive Alliance.

Names used by democratic socialist parties

 Socialist Party
 Left Party
 Democratic Socialist Party
 Socialist Democratic Party
 Labour Party
 Social Democratic Party
 The workers party UK

Alphabetical list by country

A
Albania:
Organizata Politike
Argentina:
Frente de Todos
Somos
Intransigent Party
Patria Grande Front
Socialist Party

Armenia:
Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
Democratic Party of Armenia
Independent Movement for Justice and Dignity

Australia:
Socialist Alliance
Victorian Socialists (Victoria)

B
Barbados:
People's Empowerment Party
Belarus:
Belarusian Left Party "A Just World"
Belarusian Green Party
Belgium:
Committee for Another Policy
Bolivia:
Movement for Socialism
Movement for Sovereignty
Socialist Party-1
Botswana:
Umbrella for Democratic Change:
Botswana People's Party
Brazil:
Workers' Party
Democratic Labour Party
Party of National Mobilization
Socialism and Liberty Party
Bulgaria:
BSP for Bulgaria:
Bulgarian Left
Bulgarian Progressive Line

C
Canada:
New Democratic Party (NDP/NPD)
Québec solidaire (Quebec)
Chile:
Apruebo Dignidad:
Democratic Revolution
Unir Movement
Common Force
Social Convergence
Commons
Colombia:
Historic Pact for Colombia:
Alternative Democratic Pole
Humane Colombia
Patriotic Union
Costa Rica:
Broad Front
Croatia:
Croatian Labourists – Labour Party
New Left
We can!
Workers' Front
Cyprus:
Jasmine Movement
Czech Republic:
The Left

D

Denmark:
Socialist People's Party
Red–Green Alliance

E
East Timor:
Fretilin
Ecuador:
Citizen Revolution Movement
Egypt
National Progressive Unionist Party
Socialist Popular Alliance Party
Socialist Party of Egypt
Estonia
Estonian United Left Party
European Union:
Party of the European Left
DiEM25

F
Faroe Islands (Denmark):
Republic
Finland:
Left Alliance
France:
Génération.s
La France Insoumise
Ensemble!
Citizen and Republican Movement
Eusko Alkartasuna (Basque Country)

G
Germany:
The Left
Greece:
Syriza
MeRA25
Greenland (Denmark):
Inuit Ataqatigiit

H
Haiti:
Platfòm Pitit Desalin
Honduras:
Liberty and Refoundation
Hungary:
Hungarian Social Democratic Party
Hungarian Socialist Party
Táncsics – Radical Left Party
Yes Solidarity for Hungary Movement

I
Iceland:
Left-Green Movement
Icelandic Socialist Party
India:
Socialist Party
Indonesia:
Labour Party
Just and Prosperous People's Party
Iran:
Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority)
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (Eastern Kurdistan)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (Eastern Kurdistan)
Komala (Eastern Kurdistan)
Iraq:
Kurdistan Toilers' Party (Kurdistan region)
Komala (Kurdistan region)
Ireland, Republic of:
Sinn Féin
Italy:
Article One (Art.1)
Italian Left (SI)
Power to the People (PaP)

J
Japan:
Social Democratic Party
New Socialist Party

K

L
Latvia:
Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party
Luxembourg:
The Left

M
Malaysia:
Malaysian People's Party
Socialist Party of Malaysia
 Mauritius:
Labour Party
Mauritian Militant Movement
Muvman Liberater
Militant Socialist Movement
Mexico:
National Regeneration Movement
Labor Party
Moldova:
Collective Action Party – Civic Congress
Morocco:
Party of Progress and Socialism
Unified Socialist Party
Front of Democratic Forces
Mozambique:
FRELIMO

N
Namibia:
Landless People's Movement
Nepal:
People's Socialist Party
Socialist Party of Nepal
Netherlands:
Socialist Party
BIJ1
Niger:
Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism
Party for Socialism and Democracy in Niger
Nigeria:
Young Progressives Party
Social Democratic Party
Northern Cyprus:
New Cyprus Party
United Cyprus Party
North Macedonia:
The Left
Norway:
Socialist Left Party

O

P
Palestine:
Palestinian National Initiative
Palestinian Democratic Union
Pakistan:
Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto)
Awami National Party
Awami Workers Party
Paraguay:
Revolutionary Febrerista Party
Progressive Democratic Party
Peru:
New Peru
Citizen Force
Broad Front
Magisterial Bloc
Bicentennial Peru
Philippines:
Akbayan
Laban ng Masa
Philippine Democratic Socialist Party
Poland:
Labour Union
Left Together
Polish Socialist Party
Freedom and Equality
Polish Left
Portugal:
Left Bloc
LIVRE

R

Romania:
Democracy and Solidarity Party
Russia:
Party of Russia's Rebirth
For a New Socialism
Left Socialist Action
Russian Socialist Movement
Rwanda:
Rwandan Socialist Party

S
San Marino:
Libera San Marino
Serbia:
Party of the Radical Left
Singapore:
Workers' Party of Singapore
Democratic Progressive Party
People's Power Party
Slovakia:
Socialisti.sk
Slovenia:
The Left
South Korea:
Labor Party
Spain:
Podemos
Sobiranistes (Catalonia)
Coalició Compromís (Valencia)
Galician Nationalist Bloc (Galicia)
Chunta Aragonesista (Aragon)
Més per Mallorca (Mallorca/Majorca)
Socialist Party of Majorca (Mallorca/Majorca)
Suriname:
National Democratic Party
Surinamese Labour Party
Sweden:
Left Party
Switzerland:
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
Swiss Party of Labour
Syria:
Democratic Arab Socialist Union
Syrian Democratic People's Party

T
Taiwan:
People's Democratic Party
Tanzania:
Alliance for Change and Transparency
Turkey:
Democratic Left Party
Peoples' Democratic Party
Tunisia:
Movement of Socialist Democrats

U
Uganda:
Uganda People's Congress

United Kingdom:
Labour Party (UK)
Left Unity (LU)
Breakthrough Party (BK)
Socialist Labour Party (SLP)
Northern Independence Party (Northern England)
Sinn Féin (SF) (Northern Ireland)
Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) (Northern Ireland)
Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) (Scotland)
Plaid Cymru (Wales)

United States:
Democratic Socialists of America
Socialist Party USA
Peace and Freedom Party
Green Party of the United States
Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party (Vermont)
Vermont Progressive Party (Vermont)
Washington Progressive Party (Washington)

Uruguay:
Broad Front, composed of:
Socialist Party of Uruguay
Movement of Popular Participation

V
Venezuela:
For Social Democracy
Movement for Socialism

W

X

Y

Z

See also

 Social democracy
 Democratic socialism
 List of social democratic parties
 List of social democratic and democratic socialist parties that have governed
 Socialist International
 Progressive International
 São Paulo Forum

References

Socialism-related lists
Parties and organizations
Social democracy
Lists of political parties
Democratic socialist parties
Social democratic parties
Democratic socialist

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New UK "prospective entrepreneur" Tier 1 visa. Much ado?
John Kerry's Startup Visa Act 2011 is someway off becoming law and getting something like this out of the door before the Yanks has created much excitement. Like many London-based entrepreneurs I've been investigating the benefits.
The general impression a lot of articles give is this will make it easier to bring in overseas talent (with the often cited benefit being able to bring in foreign talent for key engineering roles such as CTO). I too was really excited but digging deeper though I don't think the first impressions were right.
A new "Prospective Entrepreneur" visa will become available, which in principle enables a foreign "entrepreneur" to enter the UK for six months to finalize a funding deal for their venture, so long as their visa application is supported by accredited prospective investors who agree to reach a final funding decision within that timeframe. At the end of that six months, the entrepreneur must meet the criteria to transfer to a standard Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa.
Whereas before an entrepreneur was required to invest at least £200,000 of their own money in a UK venture to receive a Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa, this is now possible if an FSA registered venture capitalist, an endorsed entrepreneurial seed funding competition, or a UK Government Department to invest £50,000 in the UK venture on their behalf.
The first thing that should be apparent, is that this primarily appears to be aimed at foreign entrepreneurs wishing to come to the UK, rather than helping frustrated UK tech entrepreneurs who want to bring in talent from abroad. Secondly, since entrepreneurs from inside the EU can already come to the UK to setup businesses, and american entrepreneurs are unlikely to want to leave the West Coast, this is aimed at quite a narrow community e.g. Indian and Russian (inc. old Soviet sates) entrepreneurs.
Hopefully this should get them into the UK, but one should take careful note of the statement in the guide: "The Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) category is for those investing in the United Kingdom by setting up or taking over, and being actively involved in the running of one or more businesses in the United Kingdom". I can easily imagine that the relevant agencies will contest that a foreign CTO, for example, joining a startup meets this criteria.
Your prospective hires may or may not get their visas, depending upon the number of points they score and the governmental monthly limit then in force, which will be 4200 visas in April 2011, and only 1500 per month thereafter (points are awarded for things like salary and educational background).
The process takes a minimum of 2-3 months, and since you must compete under the points system for one of the 1500 visas going there is no guaranteed timeframe in which you will be able to bring your talent over despite the effort (in large part because in London plenty of talented foreigners are imported for financial jobs, and because those with high salaries are prioritized). However, at least you can bring in a team and the application itself should not be open to contest.
In summary, in practice both processes are still a nightmares if you want to bring in talent from outside the EU. Neither can be completed quickly: In relation to the Prospective Entrepreneur visa, the specified classes of UK investors generally don't move quickly, and that will likely hold even if they only need to agree to "sponsorship" and can back off investment later. For that reason in practice you are probably better off using Tier 2, since there is no ambiguity about what is possible, you will not become beholden to an outside investor (assuming you have one), and the timeframes are likely similar.
So what's to be excited about? If you want to bring in star talent to your tech startup you are looking at a 2-3 month process. Time you wanted them to be doing their thing, and when they could be tempted by other jobs!
As for the UK getting one over on the US with its yet-to-be-passed Startup Visa Act, I'm really not so sure. The US act will only require the involvement of a "qualified" investor. This means that you will be able to deal with business angels who can move more quickly and anyway US venture capitalists are less risk adverse, move more quickly and the West Coast on balance is a better environment too.
If we really want to get one over on the US, we should make it really easy for UK tech entrepreneurs to import talent. There is a massive shortage of truly experienced and talented engineers on the market in the UK as everywhere, and addressing this area would give a real boost.
As a simple suggestion, why not allow high tech startups to bring in foreign stars and then apply for their Tier 2 visas while they are here (subject of course to anti abuse criteria). Silicon Valley has been built on immigration, so let's at least make it easier to bring talented people in. That's a guaranteed way to boost the tech sector. Simple practical solutions like that wouldn't require massive legislative adjustment but would be fantastic.


This article will explain you how to update manually Triby if it fails to do it manually.
Triby will download the latest available version of its software and then reboot.
How does Triby update its software?


OuS was sucessfully presented in form of keynotes at the yearly Expert Meeting for principals and school heads of kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in Slovenia. With one last presentationin this series left for November 24th, we showcased the idea to most of the Slovenian principles who will pass it to their teachers. These have been, over the years, constant promoters of innovation in our educational institutions and as OuS tries to transform, modernize and internationalise the Slovenian education system with tangible effects of open education, everyone feels this meeting has been an important hub for spreading the idea.


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Best Spanish Songs for Kids
Learn Spanish, Spanish Songs for Kids
It's no secret that most children love songs and music. Not only do they enjoy music, they can learn a lot from it too. We've already suggested using Netflix shows and books to supplement language learning (of course, every language program should include a real live teacher, first!), but seriously consider using songs to help teach your child Spanish. If you desire to have your child learn Spanish as a second language, music is definitely one way you can incorporate the language into your home, even if you aren't bilingual.
How Do Children Learn With Songs?
Before we get into the songs we suggest, it's important to note that humans are naturally drawn to music, even children. Science says so. According to a study by Frontiers of Psychology, "every healthy human is born with the ability to appreciate [music]." Interestingly, the study suggests that language is a type of music from a child's view.
Even with that being said, we wonder, can music really help with language acquisition? Obviously, we believe YES!
According to a study published in the Literacy Information and Computer Education Journal (LICEJ), "Language acquisition has a profound relationship with music in that they can both develop and support each other." According to the study, using songs in language learning has helped with pronunciation. The study says that songs help with the expansion of grammar and vocabulary, as well as aid in the development of the skills needed for learning the target language in greater depth. The study raises an interesting point about why songs are effective. Songs are effective, many believe, because it requires listening, and listening is an important part of language acquisition. Here at TruFluency Kids, we believe listening should come first, just as we all learned our first language. So when parents say, "But I don't hear my child speaking much at first." That is like saying, I expect my child to play the piano without having ever seen, touched, or heard of a piano before." Give it time.
Your child listened to you speak English for thousands of hours before they began speaking. Albeit, children in Spanish immersion classes will speak more quickly than a baby, of course, because they are purposely learning with a goal in mind, and the instructor is going to instruct them to speak and sing. So yes, they will speak more quickly, but still, be patient. What we see is a sudden burst of speaking, after months or even a year of listening. It's quite remarkable what the brain is doing while the mouth is being silent.
In addition to that, the repetition that is a characteristic of most songs is helpful when acquiring a second language. According to the study, "such repetition enables the brain to remember learned content. As a matter of fact, the paper cited another study that found children who listened to an intervention text being sung actually had "significantly higher vocabulary gain" than the children who only heard it spoken.
Finally, music can simply put your child in a better mood. According to Kansas State University, "Listening to any kind of music helps build music-related pathways in the brain. And music can have positive effects on our moods that may make learning easier."
Now that we've covered why music is critical for learning Spanish as a Second Language, here are 10 of the best Spanish songs that can help you teach your children the Spanish language.
Compadre compreme un coco by Jose Luis Orozco- This song is fun because it can be a little hard to say the words especially as it speeds up.
Chocolate by Jose Luis Orozco- This is another pleasant and catchy song to listen to. Yes, it's about chocolate
De Colores by Joan Baez- This song is a staple for many young Spanish learners.
Diez había en la cama by Little Baby Bum- This song and the accompanying visuals are fun and can help with counting from 10 downwards.
Una patata, dos patatas by Little Baby Bum- This is a catchy song that may also help with learning numbers.
Un Elefante Se Balanceaba– This one is a classic nursery rhyme about elephants on a spider web, hilarious!
La Vaca Lechera– Another classic and popular Spanish nursery rhyme. This one is about a cow.
La rana cantaba debajo del agua– This one is full of vocabulary and it gets faster and faster which can be fun.
Estrellita Dónde Estás Con Letra– This is the Spanish of the classic "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
Mary tiene un corderitos – This is the Spanish version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
In addition to these songs, you can probably find the Spanish version of your child's favorite nursery rhyme to supplement this list. YouTube will be your best friend for finding songs.
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Q: Replicate only specific records of a table I have setup a merge replication and have got a new requirement:
The records of a table should not be replicated until the [state] column is changed from 0 to 1. I have created a filter for the replication to limit replication to records with state = 1, but now the records are removed from the subscriber when the state is set to 0.
Is it possible to keep those records on the subscriber?

A: for replicating an specific set of data, you can create a view and replicate it.
here you can see what data you can publish
there is a small detail though:

All types of replication allow you to replicate views. The view (and
  its accompanying index, if it is an indexed view) can be copied to the
  Subscriber, but the base table must also be replicated.
For indexed views, transactional replication also allows you to
  replicate the indexed view as a table rather than a view, eliminating
  the need to also replicate the base table. To do this, specify one of
  the "indexed view logbased" options for the @type parameter of
  sp_addarticle (Transact-SQL). For more information about using
  sp_addarticle, see Define an Article.

A: Not with the technology you use - this is not what replication is intended to do. A filter is indeed an active filter, also removing objects. You CAN add a specific field for that that you never reset.

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Q: How to export chart from WPF Toolkit (MS Chart) to PNG. It doesn't work, it creates only a black PNG I cannot export MS Chart (from WPF toolkit) to PNG. I following step from different forums, but after everything, my PNG is completely black. What am I doing wrong?
private void export_graf_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (mcChart.Series[0] == null)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("there is nothing to export");
            }
            else
            {

           RenderTargetBitmap renderBitmap = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)mcChart.ActualWidth,    (int)mcChart.ActualHeight, 95d, 95d, PixelFormats.Pbgra32);

                renderBitmap.Render(mcChart);

                Microsoft.Win32.SaveFileDialog uloz_obr = new Microsoft.Win32.SaveFileDialog();
                uloz_obr.FileName = "Graf";
                uloz_obr.DefaultExt = "png";

                Nullable<bool> result = uloz_obr.ShowDialog();
                if (result == true)
                {
                    string obr_cesta = uloz_obr.FileName; //cesta k souboru

              using (FileStream outStream = new FileStream(obr_cesta, FileMode.Create))
                    {
                        PngBitmapEncoder encoder = new PngBitmapEncoder();
                        encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(renderBitmap));
                        encoder.Save(outStream);
                    }

                }

A: I think you are encountering a layout issue.  The RenderTargetBitmap class works on the visual layer, which includes offsets and transforms inherited from its visual parents.  You should isolate the visual element when rendering it to a BitmapFrame.  You can also specify a background color without affecting your window's visual tree, unless you want a transparent background.  The PNG format supports alpha transparency and some image viewers display transparent pixels as black.
The default dpi for WPF is 96.  I'm not sure why you specified 95.  This isn't a zero bound index or anything like that.  The sample below uses 96dpi.
private void export_graf_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (mcChart.Series[0] == null)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("there is nothing to export");
    }
    else
    {
        Rect bounds = VisualTreeHelper.GetDescendantBounds(mcChart);

        RenderTargetBitmap renderBitmap = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)bounds.Width, (int)bounds.Height, 96, 96, PixelFormats.Pbgra32);

        DrawingVisual isolatedVisual = new DrawingVisual();
        using (DrawingContext drawing = isolatedVisual.RenderOpen())
        {
            drawing.DrawRectangle(Brushes.White, null, new Rect(new Point(), bounds.Size)); // Optional Background
            drawing.DrawRectangle(new VisualBrush(mcChart), null, new Rect(new Point(), bounds.Size));
        }

        renderBitmap.Render(isolatedVisual);

        Microsoft.Win32.SaveFileDialog uloz_obr = new Microsoft.Win32.SaveFileDialog();
        uloz_obr.FileName = "Graf";
        uloz_obr.DefaultExt = "png";

        Nullable<bool> result = uloz_obr.ShowDialog();
        if (result == true)
        {
            string obr_cesta = uloz_obr.FileName;

            using (FileStream outStream = new FileStream(obr_cesta, FileMode.Create))
            {
                PngBitmapEncoder encoder = new PngBitmapEncoder();
                encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(renderBitmap));
                encoder.Save(outStream);
            }
        }
    }
}


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Q: mysql group by day and count then filter only the highest value for each day I'm stuck on this query. I need to do a group by date, card_id and only show the highest hits. I have this data:
date        card_name     card_id   hits
29/02/2016  Paul Stanley    1345    12
29/02/2016  Phil Anselmo    1347    16
25/02/2016  Dave Mustaine   1349    10
25/02/2016  Ozzy            1351    17
23/02/2016  Jhonny Cash     1353    13
23/02/2016  Elvis           1355    15
20/02/2016  James Hethfield 1357    9
20/02/2016  Max Cavalera    1359    12

My query at the moment
SELECT DATE(card.create_date) `day`, `name`,card_model_id, count(1) hits
FROM card
Join card_model ON card.card_model_id = card_model.id
WHERE DATE(card.create_date) >= DATE(DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH)) AND card_model.preview = 0
GROUP BY  `day`, card_model_id
;

I want to group by date, card_id and filter the higher hits result showing only one row per date. As if I run a max(hits) with group by but I won't work
Like:
date        card_name     card_id   hits
29/02/2016  Phil Anselmo    1347    16
25/02/2016  Ozzy            1351    17
23/02/2016  Elvis           1355    15
20/02/2016  Max Cavalera    1359    12

Any light on that will be appreciated. Thanks for reading.

A: Here is one way to do this.  Based on your sample data (not the query):
select s.*
from sample s
where s.hits = (select max(s2.hits)
                from sample s2
                where date(s2.date) = date(s.date)
               );

Your attempted query seems to have no relationship to the sample data, so it is unclear how to incorporate those tables (the attempted query has different columns and two tables).


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Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Tatian
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, Volume XXIII (1888)
Tatian
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See also Tatian on Wikipedia, Tatian in the 11th Edition, and the disclaimer.
2669024Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, Volume XXIII — Tatian1888
TATIAN, one of the earliest Christian apologists, whose personality and work had an important influence on the history of the church during the period of the Antonines. He was by birth an Assyrian (according to Zahn of Semitic descent), but received a Greek education, and, after acquiring a very extensive knowledge of Greek literature, began to travel about the Roman empire as a wandering teacher or "sophist." But his inquiring disposition and his earnest spirit remained unsatisfied alike with the religions and the philosophies he encountered, while the doings of men, their greed for amusement and pleasure, their vanity and treachery, disgusted him. In this temper, about 150 A.D., he reached Rome, where the Old Testament fell into his hands, and at the same time he came into closer relations with the Christians; their firm faith, chaste morals, fearless courage, and close fellowship deeply impressed him, and in the end the spectacle of their life and their monotheistic doctrine founded upon prophetic revelation completely conquered him. Henceforward the whole unchristian world, with all its philosophy and culture, presented itself to him as mere darkness and the deception of demons, but the "barbarian philosophy" (for so he called Christianity) as the wisdom of God. He became a convert, and soon afterwards (152-153) wrote (most probably in Greece, where he stayed for some time) his Oratio ad Græcos, which gained him great repute among the Christians, and is still extant. This discourse is distinguished from the other apologies of that century by the brusqueness with which its author repudiates the culture of the Greeks; his scorn, however, does not forget to avail itself of the resources of Greek philosophy and rhetoric. His polemic often reminds the reader of the Cynics and of such scoffers as Lucian; his view of things, however, is very different from that of the last-named writer, for with Tatian the "barbarian philosophy," on behalf of which he speaks, which teaches a monotheistic cosmology and inculcates rigid asceticism and renunciation of the world, is indisputably certain. In many details, and even in the general outline of his philosophy, Tatian the Christian continued without knowing it to be a Platonizing philosopher; but that he had undergone a radical change is shown by his views of history and civilization, his faith in one living God, his conviction that truth is contained nowhere else than in the Christian Scriptures, his attitude of trust towards the Logos, made man in Jesus Christ, and finally by his earnest and world-forsaking expectation of judgment to come. The Oratio, which is polemical rather than apologetic in its character, has a special importance in the history of Christian dogma, inasmuch as it gives an elaborated exposition of the doctrine of the Logos; it was also read by subsequent writers, as, for example, by Julius Africanus, for its chronological data. Tatian was the first apologist to undertake, on behalf of Christianity, a work of the class which afterwards developed into the numerous "world-histories" written from the Christian point of view. Tatian's diction is often rough, harsh, and abrupt, his sentences involved and inelegant. He has the art, indeed, of expressing himself with uncommon freedom and independence, and can put things also in a very graphic way, but at the same time he is a careless stylist, or rather, as an apostate from the Greek view of things, he has tried to accentuate his breach with classical traditions by elaborate carelessness and deliberate eccentricity.
Tatian soon returned from Greece to Rome, and came into close relations with the famous apologist Justin, whom he reverenced greatly. He himself established a school, to which the afterwards celebrated ecclesiastical writer Rhodon belonged for a time. So long as Justin lived (i.e. till 166) Tatian's doctrines excited no feelings of offence in the Christian community, although even in his Oratio there are germs of questionable and unorthodox views. These germs, however, he continued to develop until about 172; and, as about this very time the Roman church became severely opposed to everything Gnostic and heretical, a rupture was inevitable; the date of the breach is given by Eusebius (doubtless following Julius Africanus) as having been 172. But the teaching of Tatian had really become open to challenge. He drew a distinction between the supreme God and the demiurge, considering the latter to be good in his nature indeed, but quite a subordinate being; he accepted the doctrine of a variety of æons; he utterly rejected marriage and the use of animal food; he denied the blessedness of Adam; he began to abandon the allegorical interpretation of the Scriptures and to see genuine difficulties and contradictions in them; he sought to demonstrate from the epistles of Paul the indispensableness of the most rigid asceticism; but indeed all his "heresies" (and he has also been charged with docetism) have their explanation in this desire of his to establish a theoretical basis for his doctrine of the Christian duty of complete world-renunciation. He joined the "Encratites," a sect which indeed had existed before this time, but which received new life from his presence. Of his numerous writings belonging to this period nothing has survived the hostility which sought their repression save a few titles (βιβλίον προβληάτων περὶ ροῠ κατὰ τὸν σωτῆρα καταπτισμοῠ, &c.) and one Or two very interesting fragments in the works of Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Jerome. Clement of Alexandria seems personally to have known Tatian, and even to have been his pupil for a time. Soon Tatian began also to be assailed in writing by the teachers of the church, and to be set aside as a very prodigy among heretics, and as a man who united the errors of Marcion with those of Valentine. Musanus, Rhodon, Irenieus, the author of the Muratorian fragment (see below), Tertullian, Hippolytus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen all took part in refuting him.
Towards the end of his life, or perhaps even between 152 and 172, Tatian went from Rome to Mesopotamia, and there—probably in Edessa—wrought a great deal. It is probable that he was in Rome about the year 172, but whether he died there or in his native country is not ascertained. It is very possible that in Syria, where ecclesiastical matters had not been developed so far as in the West, the doctrines of Tatian met with toleration within the Christian communities, but neither of this can we be certain.[1] But this we do know, that a work of Tatian's not yet mentioned, the Diatessaron, held its ground in the Syrian churches and even in ecclesiastical use for two whole centuries.
The Diatessaron is a gospel very freely and boldly constructed by Tatian out of the four Gospels known to us. It cannot have been produced during his latter years, for all traces of dualism are absent. On the other hand, however, it exhibits certain peculiarities of the theology of its compiler. Probably one would not so far wrong in assigning it to the first years of the reign of Marcus Aurelius. It was written by Tatian in Greek, not in Syriac as Zahn has tried to make out;—this is shown—(1) by the title, it being known even among the Syrians as Diatessaron; (2) by a few Greek fragments which still survive; (3) by the Latin redaction which it received in the 6th century; (4) by its rejection in the Muratorian fragment—for that the word "m-tia-i," carelessly corrected by the transcriber, stood originally "tatiani" may be regarded as certain.[2] In estimating the work scholars were formerly entirely dependent on certain meagre notices in Eusebius, Theodoret, Ephraem Syrus, Epiphanius, and the later Syrians,[3] but we have recently become possessed of large portions of it, and are now in a position to form for ourselves an idea of its character and plan. In 1877 there was published[4] a Latin translation, by Aucher the Mechitarist, of Ephraem's gospel commentary, which had been preserved in Armenian, and it then became apparent that Ephraem had taken the Diatessaron as his basis. This led to further research. [5] Recognizing with other scholars that other Syrian writers also, down to the middle of the 4th century, had used the Diatessaron (Theodoret tells us that in his diocese alone he caused more than 300 copies to be withdrawn from use), Zahn undertook the laborious task of restoring the work with the help of Ephraem's commentary and other sources.[6] In details much of what Zahn has given as belonging to the text of the Diatessaron remains problematical,—in particular he has not been sufficiently careful in his examination of the work of Aphraates,—but in all the main points his restoration has been successful. The rediscovery of such a work is in a variety of ways of the very highest importance for the early history of Christianity. (1) It is of interest for the history of the canon. It shows that in Tatian's time there was still no recognized New Testament canon, and that the texts of the Gospels were not regarded as inspired. He could not possibly have treated them with such freedom had they been held to be otherwise. But the ecclesiastical use made of his work in Syria shows that Tatian intended it for the church, and, as we are informed further by Eusebius that Tatian also edited the Pauline epistles, we are entitled to conclude that, like Marcion, he wished to frame a special New Testament canon. (2) It is of importance for the Gospels as we now have them. We learn from the Diatessaron that about 160 A.D. our four Gospels had already taken a place of prominence in the church and that no others had done so; that in particular the Fourth Gospel had taken a fixed place alongside of the three synoptics. (3) As regards the text of the Gospels, we can conclude from the Diatessaron that the texts of our Gospels about the year 160 already ran essentially as we now read them, but that intentional changes were not wanting about the middle of the 2d century. Thus, for example, Tatian in his Gospel according to Matthew found nothing about the "church" and about the building of the church upon Peter the rock. These sentences therefore are very probably of later interpolation.  (4) It is of importance for the light it throws on Tatian's Christianity. The Syriac translation of the Diatessaron still falls within the 2d century, but Zahn was mistaken in assuming it to presuppose a prior Syriac translation of the separate Gospels (the so-called Syrus Curetonianus); Baethgen[7] has shown the latter to be the later. It was only gradually that the "evangelium der Getrennten" superseded the "evangelium der Gemischten."[8]
The best editions of the Oratio ad Græcos are those of Worth (Oxford, 1700), Maranus (Paris, 1742), and Otto (Jena, 1851). See Daniel, Tatian der Apologet, 1S37; Zahn, Tatian's Diatessaron, Erlangen, 1881 (compare also his Evang. Comm. des Theophilus, Erlangen, 1883, p. 286 sg.); Harnack, Texte u. Untersuchungen z. Gesch. d. altchr. Lit., i. 1; Id., Ztschr. f. Kirchengesch., iv. 471 sq.; and Tatian's Rede an die Griechen übersetzt u. eingeleitet, Giessen, 1884; Hilgenfeld, Ketzergesch., Leipsic, 1884; Möller, art. "Tatian," in Herzog-Plitt's Encykl., vol. xv.; and Donaldson, Hist, of Christ, Lit., iii. p. 3-62. (a. ha.)
↑ The author of the Acta Archelai treats him as a heretic.
↑ See Zeitschr. f. d. luth. Theol., 1874 and 1875; Zeitschr. f. wiss. Theol; 1877; Zeitschr. f. Kirchengesch., iii. p. 400.
↑ See Credner, Einl., i. 437 sq.; Semisch, Tatiani Diatessaron, 1856.
↑ Evangelii Concordantis Expositio facta a S. Ephraemo, Venice.
↑ See Harnack, Ztschr. f. Kirchengesch., iv, p. 471 sq.
↑ Zahn, Tatian's Diatessaron, 1881.
↑ Evangelienfragmente: Der Griechische Text des Cureton'schen Syrers, Leipsic, 1885.
↑ On the Diatessaron, its later history and various editions, see (besides Zahn, as cited above) the Codex Fuldensis, ed. Ranke, 1868; Schmeller, Ammonii Alex. quæ et Tatiani dicitur Harmonia Evang., 1841; Sievers, Tatian, Lat. and Ger., Paderborn, 1872; Martin, "De Tatiani Diatessaron Arabioa Versione," in Pitra's Analecta Sacra, vol. iv. (1883), pp. 465, 487.
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Quincy News
Sidewalk project list gets mixed reviews by residents
This sidewalk in the 800 block of Spring Street, which is near the Blessing Hospital campus, is one of the sidewalks that will be resurfaced as part of a $1.094 million contract approved by the Quincy City Council on Monday. Under the terms of the contract, Rees Construction of Quincy will complete 154 sidewalk and curb improvements throughout the city. | H-W Photo/Ethan Colbert
By Ethan Colbert Herald-Whig
Posted: Dec. 14, 2019 12:30 am Updated: Dec. 14, 2019 12:42 am
Click here to see a list of the sidewalk projects.
QUINCY -- Cracked, chipped and uneven sidewalks may be a thing of the past in Quincy once a contractor hired by the city completes more than 154 sidewalk projects throughout the city as part of the multi-million package that includes dozens of street and alleyway resurfacing projects, replacement of sewer and water lines, and other public infrastructure projects.
In total, the 45,378 square feet of sidewalks will be replaced as part of the sidewalk specific portion of the infrastructure project.
On Monday, the Quincy City Council approved a $1.094 million contract with Quincy-based business Rees Construction Company, who will complete the sidewalk and curb projects. A date for when construction will begin on these sidewalks has not been announced.
Director of Engineering and Utilities Jeffrey Conte said additional sidewalks may also be addressed as part of other sewer, water and street projects included in the $33 million infrastructure package.
The list of sidewalks, which was released earlier this month, was compiled using long standing work orders submitted by the Quincy City Council to the city's central services department.
"Our efforts to address a lot of the sidewalks on the list are long over due," said Alderman Eric Entrup, R-1. "While some of the sidewalks have had work orders submitted within the last year, others have been on the list for five, six, seven years or longer. We have such a backlog because our concrete crew is simply not able to get to every sidewalk every year. Hopefully, we are able to get caught up this year and never have such a backlog again."
Alderman Richie Reis, D-6, agreed.
"I think this is the best way for the city to get a clean slate and get the majority of the sidewalks on the to-do list done," Reis said.
City officials say the work orders languished on the department's to-do list as the five city employees assigned to maintaining the city's sidewalks were reassigned to battle flooding and other projects in the city.
Multiple members of the city's elected board stressed that a great many of the sidewalks on the list are perilous for residents.
"I think having good sidewalks is very important especially when you consider all of the people who use them," said Alderman Tom Ernst, R-3. "We have families who walk, school children, postal carriers, and what I would call newspaper kids who either bike or walk on them. We also have an elderly population in a lot of places in this city, and that is a population that also gets out and walks, whether it is one block or two blocks, they get out and walk. With it being dark out now, they may not always be able to see the cracks or raised parts of the sidewalks. This will help make the sidewalks safe for everybody."
The news of smoother sidewalks was welcome news to residents in the 800 block of Madison Street, where city officials plan to replace more than 432 square feet of sidewalk. In that neighborhood, there are nearly a dozen children who say they use the sidewalks daily as a place to ride their bicycles and skateboards.
Residents say they were disappointed to learn that sidewalks in the 900 block of Madison, which they say are in equally as bad of shape, were not included.
Also celebrating the announcement of the sidewalk project list was Mark Geissler, who works as the chaplain at Horizons Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry.
Plans announced by the city include adding 475 square feet of sidewalk to the north side of the 700 block of York Street, which is the same block as Horizons Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry.
Officials there say the addition of a sidewalk is badly needed, especially because a vast majority the patrons of the soup kitchen and food pantry arrive on foot, walking from their nearby homes or from the city bus terminal that is half a block away.
"You can obviously imagine that having improved sidewalks would not only be welcomed by the demographics that we serve but would be a welcome addition to the entire community," said Mark Geissler, who works as a chaplain at Horizons.
Another example of this is 800 block of Spring Street, where the concrete sidewalk has crumbled and in some places has been replaced by a rock path. This block is adjacent to the Blessing Hospital campus.
Elsewhere in the city, some of the sidewalks included on the list, such as 1101 N. Chestnut, 700 Kentucky Street, and 819 Kentucky Street, are replacing remnants of cobblestone sidewalks, which some are important reminders of a bygone era of the city's history.
In the row of businesses in the 800 block of Kentucky, business owners and staff say they don't want the brick pavers replaced especially considering the neighborhood's inclusion in the city's historic South Side German Historic District.
While some of the sidewalk projects are focused on maintaining the city's existing network of sidewalks, Conte said the list also includes creating connections between sidewalks. This is the case in the 1700 block of Maple Street, where an existing sidewalk abruptly stops and starts, leaving four homes on that block without a sidewalk.
It is a similar situation in the 1400 block of Spruce Street, where the city will be adding 2,460 square feet of sidewalk in front of seven homes in that neighborhood that is near Berrian Park, which is a 12-acre park on the city's north side.
Similarly in the 1700 block of Maple Street, the sidewalk abruptly stops midway through the block and resumes again down the block resulting in four homes not having a sidewalk.
The list of sidewalk projects also includes a number of sidewalks that are being improved to specifically address concerns over handicap accessibility, such as the sidewalk at 2300 Elm Street.
Rick Goodapple, who lives at 2315 Elm Street, said he has witnessed individuals who use wheelchairs struggle to get over the steep incline of the sidewalk, which was caused by a nearby tree root.
"That sidewalk has worried me about tripping every time I go out," Goodapple said. "It is really jacked up."
Another one of the neighborhood residents said she purposefully goes out of her way to not walk on that sidewalk when she goes to the Ladies of Charity Thrift Store, which is at intersection of N. 24th Street and Elm.
A similar example of improving accessibility is the installation of detectable warning plates, which are installed on sidewalk ramps to alert those with visual disabilities that they are approaching a street or other traffic hazard. These warnings will be installed at 12 locations throughout Quincy, including at 2000 Sycamore Street which is adjacent to the Quincy University football stadium and athletic complex.
Other warnings are being installed at 403 S. Fourth St.; 1200 Jersey Street; 700 Kentucky Street; 2000 Jackson Street; 2205 Spring Street; 2000 Sycamore Street; 500 York Street; 535 North 13th Street; 1932 State Street; 200 Broadway; 1700 Oak Street; and at the intersection of Spruce Street, 14th and 15th Streets.
Alderman Katie Awerkamp, D-6, said she is hoping residents throughout the city will see the improved sidewalks as an investment Quincy's government is making into the city's various neighborhoods. She said she is also hoping the improved sidewalks may also act as a catalyst for new residents moving into the city.
"I live in the middle of the 6th Ward and I frequently see people walking on the sidewalks," Awerkamp said. "I think sidewalks are an asset to every ward of the city and I know there are parts of a lot of the wards, especially the 6th Ward, that are struggling with curb appeal. Something like curb appeal is super important when you are trying to get potential residents to consider moving into your neighborhood, especially when your neighborhood is one of the older parts of the city."
With so many 154 sidewalks, 39 streets, and 12 sewer and water projects, Reis and his fellow aldermen are encouraging residents to be patient.
"This is a big infrastructure project," Reis said. "Just like Rome was not built in a day neither will this be done in one day. The general public has to try and be patient throughout this process."
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Right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro from the Social Liberal Party (PSL) and Fernando Haddad of the leftist Worker's Party (PT) are now set to face each other in the runoff election on 28 October. Bolsonaro led a crowded field of 13 presidential contenders with 46% of the total vote, falling just short of the 50% needed for an outright victory. He was followed by Haddad – from the opposite end of the political spectrum – with 29%.
Regardless of who wins the runoff on 28 October, the president-elect will face the formidable task of building an alliance cohesive enough to advance his agenda. The newly elected Congress has shifted slightly further to the right. Bolsonaro's PSL went from just 8 seats in Brazil's lower house to becoming the second largest party with 52 of the 513 total seats. Despite this outcome, Brazil's legislative branch is largely expected to adhere to its traditional makeup: highly fragmented with a centrist leaning majority.
Anger abounds in Brazil these days due to high unemployment, sluggish economic growth, and widespread corruption scandals. This frustration, in turn, has fueled anti-establishment sentiment, putting seasoned politicians and market favorites at a disadvantage. Moreover, the results portend little hope of unity, but rather an elevation of political risks that could spell trouble for investors in the near term.


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Your Skin 'Smells' Sandalwood Essential Oil, Which Stimulates Cell Proliferation and Wound Healing
By David Gutierrez, www.naturalnews.com
By David Gutierrez, contributing writer to Natural News
The skin possesses scent receptors that respond to sandalwood oil by stimulating healing, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Ruhr-University Bochum and the University of Munster, both in Germany, and published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
"Only a tiny little amount of odorants are used by our receptors in the nose," said Peter Schieberle of the Technical University of Munich. "Odor might have secondary functions in the human body."
Every Organ Can "Smell"
Scientists have identified about 350 separate olfactory receptors in the human nose but have also discovered about 150 of these receptors in other organs, including the heart and liver. Indeed, scent receptors have been found in nearly every human tissue.
"There is a big trend towards odour receptors being found elsewhere in the body doing other jobs," said Joel Mainland of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, who was not involved in the study.
In the nose, one of the main functions these receptors serve is informing the brain about the environment, which may then lead to other effects (such as producing hunger or nausea, or triggering a memory).
It has been difficult for scientists to discover what functions these receptors serve in other parts of the body, although some investigations have begun yielding results. For example, studies have shown that smell receptors on sperm cells can change the direction and speed of swimming, while receptors on colon cells trigger the release of the neurotransmitter serotonin. The latter effect is believed to play a role in what some scientists call the "second brain," a reference to the large role that the gut plays in regulating bodily systems, including mood and cognition.
"Scent" Spurs Healing
In the new study, researchers tested the OR2AT4 scent receptor in the keratinocytes that comprise the skin's outermost layer. They exposed this receptor to natural sandalwood oil, as well as 10 different synthetic versions of the scent (known as Sandalore). The researchers explained that, for at least 4,000 years, sandalwood has been a prized perfume and medicinal treatment for skin across East Asia.
The researchers noted that they tested synthetic as well as natural versions because sandalwood oil is very expensive, due to the rarity of the East Asian sandalwood tree. Many of the synthetic versions they tested are already used in cosmetics, perfumes, deodorants and incense.
Of the oils tested, only three had any effects. All of these, however, triggered a calcium-dependent signaling pathway in the keratinocytes, leading to a 32 percent increase in cell proliferation and a nearly 50 percent increase in cell migration. Both of these changes are characteristic of wound healing. The experiments were repeated on skin tissue samples that had been scratched, confirming the healing benefit.
The researchers also found various other scent receptors in not just the keratinocytes but also the skin's fibroblasts (which play a role in wound healing) and melanocytes (which are found near the bottom of the epidermis and produce the skin pigment melanin).
Although the results are promising, it may be a while before scientists are able to produce wound-healing sandalwood products. For one thing, the concentrations used were a thousand times higher than what would be needed to trigger a receptor in the nose, and the skin cells had to be exposed to the oil for five days to produce the effect. Both of these factors suggest that skin creams rather than perfumes would be needed to produce healing effects.
"The results so far show that they possess therapeutic and cosmetic potential," researcher Hanns Hatt said. "Still, we mustn't forget that concentrated fragrances should be handled with care, until we have ascertained which functions the different types of olfactory receptors in skin cells have."
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Seeing Green! An Oscar Wrap
Leaving Is Never Easy
Break out your best black outfit and call the florist to order flowers. There's been a death in our cinematic family. Made is gone. No, she doesn't die in A Madea Family Funeral. But her alter-ego, Tyler Perry, says this is it for his big-mouthed franchise character.
I would have us bow our heads for a moment of silence (and to take a sip from the flask we smuggled into the theater), but this film delivers just enough laughs to make sure silence isn't an option.
Death Becomes Her
The movie focuses on a Madea's extended family getting together for a 40th anniversary party, and our loud mouthed idol is reluctantly invited. Along the way there is multi-generational sexual betrayal. Madea and crew show up in the aftermath and struggle to keep all the nasty secrets.
Along the way, Madea somehow becomes mistress of ceremonies for the funeral, setting up a fun scene at the mortuary and her as timekeeper at the services, which ran a brief 10ish hours, making Aretha Franklin's sendoff seem short and sweet.
At the service, all the dead man's mistresses show up, humiliating the sort of grieving widow and giving Joe and Uncle Heathrow their own hook-up goals.
The overall lesson we learn is that when, in our own lives, we do not want/need Madea on hand to help us through our grief. We'll soldier on with Jim, Jack, and Johnnie, thank you very much.
Scratch the Surface
Tyler Perry shoots these movies in about a week and, honestly, it shows.
The movie revolves around a death and grieving, but never delves deep into it, which is fine, given that it's a Madea movie.
The film looks at deep, personal betrayals but fails to dig below the surface, which feels fine, given that it's a Madea movie.
The feature tries to give a message of female empowerment but gives only a moment or two of lip service.. and uses Mike Tyson in the process(!), which seems fine, given that it's a Madea movie.
All in all it feels like your average Madea movie. Lots of gags, not a lot of substance. And substance was never the goal. In one interview he said this is silly fun, not Schindler's List. He got that right!
This is definitely a rental. Only superfans and alcoholic critics need drag themselves to see this one in theaters.
Crown Royal & Coke. It's a fave of one of the characters, and my personal choice of beverage when attending any somber service lasting more than 45 minutes.
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CEOs in banking, manufacturing, and retail told me they had already made expensive operational changes to prepare for worst-case trade war and Brexit scenarios—moving production from China to Vietnam and India, for example, or spending hundreds of millions of dollars to relocate London-based trading and banking operations. These are sunk costs that won't be reversed, even if 25% tariffs or a hard Brexit don't come to pass.
There's another potential cost to rising nationalism, one that would be borne most heavily by the world's poorest citizens.
One of the greatest successes of the past two decades has been the astonishing 40% drop in child mortality in low- and middle-income countries. What caused such a precipitous change? Multinational collaboration, capitalist principles, and a lot of money. As Secretary-General Guterres might put it, an integrated response to a global challenge.
Here's how it worked: A handful of organizations, including the Global Fund; Gavi, a global vaccine alliance; and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, raised a great deal of money from governments and philanthropists. They used their scale and purchasing power to buy vast quantities of vaccines and reliable medications for malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV at low cost. And then they solved the logistical challenges of getting them to the communities where they were needed, no matter how remote. Deaths from AIDS have dropped by more than half, and polio has all but disappeared.
In a world full of chance and complexity, where the results of our attempts to improve things are often difficult to measure, this is a refreshingly simple equation.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put in $10 billion, and Bill Gates called it the best investment he'd ever made. "It almost feels like a miracle to pay pennies and prevent diseases," says Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Gates Foundation.
Now, there could be a problem.
Every five years, each of these institutions has to replenish their funds, and in the next 18 months, all three must do so at the same time. They need billions of dollars, and a significant amount of that has to come from the foreign-aid budgets of countries like the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan.
In 2019, the word "global" in all of those institutions' names is a challenge. "We are asking people to think about global issues at a time of nationalism," Desmond-Hellmann says. "If your citizens are saying, 'We are struggling over here. What are you giving to global causes? What about home?' That's actually a valid question." Foreign aid may be pulled away, and without that funding, many of the gains of the past 20 years could be erased.
Beyond the lives saved and suffering prevented, there's a strong economic case not only for replenishing these particular funds now, but also for extending this kind of collaborative, public-private approach to other global crises.
First of all, Desmond-Hellmann says, "the threat of disease anywhere is the threat of disease everywhere." Pandemics are a real and scary risk. There's another Ebola outbreak in Africa now.
And as Bill Gates explained in an essay in The Wall Street Journal, "The $10 billion that we gave to help provide vaccines, drugs, bed nets, and other supplies in developing countries created an estimated $200 billion in social and economic benefits." That's what economists call the "demographic dividend"—the economic growth that can follow when a country's working-age share of the population surpasses the non-working-age share.
When children don't fall ill from common and preventable or curable diseases, they're a lot more likely to grow into productive adults who can work and take care of their families. Growth in emerging markets depends on a strong and healthy workforce. And as those healthy adults move into the middle class, they become consumers, as well—a growth market for the multinational corporations that most investors invest in.
In rich countries like the U.S., globalization left too many people behind. As the tide turns back toward nationalism, we risk making the same mistake, leaving children around the world vulnerable once again to diseases we can easily afford to prevent.
"If I had to select one sentence to describe the state of the world," Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres told a crowd at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, "I would say, 'We are in a world in which global challenges are more and more integrated and the responses are more and more fragmented, and if this is not reversed, it is a recipe for disaster.


The present study takes another look at the debate surrounding the 'sectarian' vs. 'canonical' nature of 11QPsa (11Q5). It specifically investigates the question of possible sectarian terminology in David's Compositions (DavComp), focusing particularly on the comment expressed there that David was 'perfect in all his ways'. A comparison of this terminology with its pattern of use elsewhere in the Qumran literature suggests that it reflects a sectarian presentation of David and, thus, of DavComp as a whole. If correct, this would in turn have impact on the understanding of 11QPsa as a whole, given the importance usually ascribed to DavComp in the debate over the nature of 11QPsa.


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...there are many recipes are a must-to-make on this day - various kinds of pongals, desserts and appetizers for potlucks are just to name a few.
Mirchi Bhajji, as-is is the best snack ever..
To add to the list is today's recipe - Cut Mirchi Bhajji a.k.a Double Fried Cut Chilli Fritters which are just perfect for any occasion, not just festivals.
Choosing the right kind of peppers is important for bhajji to come perfect!
1. Wash and pat dry peppers. Make a vertical slit to the peppers and remove the seeds and membranes.
2. Fill peppers with little stuffing**.
3. Heat sufficient oil in a wok for deep-frying on medium-low heat. While it gets heated up, lets prepare the besan coating.
4. In a bowl, mix besan, rice flour, chilli powder, salt and eating soda. Add water little by little (without any lumps). Note: To a consistency where it doesn't drip easily and coats the peppers completely.
5. Once the oil is heated (Make sure the oil is NOT smoking hot.), dip each of the peppers into the besan paste. With one finger slide off the paste on one side of the mirchi, so that it cooks completely. (one nifty trick my mom learnt from a street vendor ;-) ).
6. Deep fry the peppers to a golden brown color. Drain them on to paper towel so that excess oil is drained off. Cool to room temperature. stop your urge to polish them off, we have just one more step to go ;-).
7. Cut each of fried peppers into 1 inch long pieces. Deep fry them again in medium hot oil until they turn crispy which will take only a minute. Drain them again on paper towels.
8. Serve with finely chopped onion, cilantro and lemon slices.
Yum ,yum and super yum, Thanks a ton for sharing all that wisdom from veterans of mirchi bhajji trade! And Happy Pongal to you!
I am hooked on the pics. Would love that with some hot tea..! I am hosting my first blog event plus giveaway – Valentines Special. Do check it out and be a part of it. Would be great..!
Wish you a happy Sankranthi Too!
Cut Mirchi is my absolute favorite. Looks crispy and very tempting to me.
Looks so good... Just what I need right now in this cold Bangalore weather.
Oh god Siri mouthwatering , we get this at peacock here and he sprinkles with red onions and chat masala and drizzle with lemon.
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